Motivational Quotes

Work

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

- Mcgoorty, Danny

Best Quotes about Work

Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The